when in rome

Rome, Italy: February 26-28

I'M BACK! I actually got back March 6, but I've just been so busy with school, and dance, and Russian club. It's funny thinking of the almost-catastrophe that occured during third period the Friday we left for Italy. I realized that I left Cammy at home...God only knows how many beats my heart skipped. Luckily, my parents are merciful people and agreed to bring me Cammy right after school. If it hadn't have been for that I wouldn't have anything to show for my trip - well aside from a bunch of rings and a leather jacket. These photographs are my favorites that I took in Rome; I took TONS of photos during the trip so I decided to put them up by city. I was a bit of a creeper in Italy - I took a lot of photos of random people; including some girly with an awesome leather bag, a man and a woman painting, and a girl with killer fringe cowboy boots. Rome was just as incredible as it was before, if not even more so with the fact that I was with my friends this time. I shall being uploading photos from our two-night stay in Sorrento as well as in Florence and Venice, within the next few days! 

ciao!

So...I leave from Rome, Italy tomorrow night and I'm not going to lie I'm jumping up and down inside! This is just a random shot that I took of the things that I was packing before I shoved them in my suitcase. Among them are my new suede moccassins that I picked up at Saver's the other day. These will be my walking shoes for the majority of my trip. I will be traveling with Cammy in tow so I will be sure to have a lot of stuff to upload when I get back. I'm no good with goodbyes so I will leave you with this, cyberworld, CIAO BELLA!

lift your head to the air

Its been a few months since I've photographed Mikaela so when she and her Mom came over on Friday I decided to sneak in some candids. This was taken yesterday morning; I hadn't even gotten out of bed yet. She was just poking around in my room while I was snapping away. I know my posts have been pretty sporadic lately, but things have been pretty busy. I did make a trip to Saver's today and got some...interesting stuff so I'll try to make some time to document that before I leave for Rome on Friday!

"flow"

I've always liked D&G, but never like this; I am completely in love with the "flow" of Dolce and Gabbana s/s 2011. I must have watched the show ten times in the last day! I just love to watch the floral maxis flow. I haven't felt this way about a collection since Chanel last spring; oh how I adored those platform clogs.The floral prints make me want spring to get here faster! Of course, yesterday was Groundhog Day and I guess the groundhog saw his shadow so that means an early spring? I think...I don't know much about the day but anyway! I am obsessed with this collection and I am planning on adding some floral print to my closet soon...I"ll just have to find more affordable options for myself.

the cold has killed us

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(Free People lace dress, Forever 21 wool floppy hat, vintage belt, and Kelsi Dagger wedges)

(Small sign of life outside today, standing in a massive snow storm yesterday, and my Kelsi Dagger wedges post-snow storm)

I was sitting in my room today, stretching, wondering what I should do for my 365 today when I looked out the window to watch the snow fall. That's when I saw this, a few orange leaves still attached to the big maple tree outside my bedroom window. I thought it was odd that with all the snow storms we've had ...in Boston, these few colored leaves had managed to stay on the branch. I had been thinking of uploading another photo of the snow storm, but I decided that I was sick of all the white. I've been anxiously waiting for spring to bring some color into this snowy landscape and today it did.
 Yesterday was a pretty good day; my Mom dismissed me from school at 9:30 due to a massive snow storm and I spent the rest of the day running around in the snow with Cammy in tow. You may be wondering what you're looking at in the second picture; well the answer is me standing in the middle of the storm (black suede wedges and all.) My Daggers were covered in snow by the time I came inside, I had to put them by the fire so that all the snow would melt. I kind of wish I'd gotten a shot of the Daggers right after I took them off, but whatever, chances are that I will get one eventually the way I run out during storms.

my gems

 From Left: Black stone ring (and green) from Forever 21; orange flower ring gifted; owl face ring from Forever 21, silver swirl vintage ring, black studded ring from Forever 21; silver studd ring from 344; turquoise ring and rhineston ring both from Forever 21; earth stone ring and light blue both from Forever 21; silver and turquoise ring by Lucky Brand.

From Left: sea glass necklace from Forever 21; peace sign and feather by Lucky Brand; vintage serpent bolo tie; dagger from King Richard's Faire; Talisman from Forever 21; and Lucky Brand pendant.

As you may have noticed there is a lot of Forever 21 in my jewlery box; especially when it comes to buying rings. I think the most expensive piece of jewlery are probably the three pieces from Lucky Brand which I got at TJ Maxx for under $20. That just goes to show you how much I'm willing to spend on jewlery...well as much as my Mom will allow me to spend on it at least. I love jewlery I think it completes and adds character to an outfit. I like Forever 21's jewlery because you can get a lot of it at once because it's so affordable - and the way I wear it I need a lot. I PILE it all on! That's pretty much my entire philosophy for dressing in general...whatever it seems to be working out pretty well for me!

bubble, bubble toil and trouble

(Black tunic from Metropark, Free People velvet skirt, Free People eyelet cardigan, Dida lace up boots, Cynthia Rowley floppy hat, vintage lacey knee highs, my talisman from Forever 21.)

Nothing much to do today, just homework and field hockey. But inbetween that I got bored and put this together. Wearing this outfit makes me wonder where I put my broom. I've decided that this "talisman" has become a go-to piece lately. I've been wearing it with everything! I guess I decided to get dressed with my econ teacher's observation in mind. This Free People cardigan has also been a go-to since New Year's. I got it on my trip to the Free People store back in December and I've been wearing that with everything too! Its so comfortable and it looks good with EVERYTHING! I got the tunic at Metropark last spring and I've been trying to figure out how to wear it ever since. Its too long to wear with jeans, and too short to wear alone...so I just decided to layer it with a skirt.

Gasoline & Matches

I wore a lot of Forever 21 today. I made a trip to Barnes & Noble to get "Catcher in the Rye" for school on Monday. This floppy, wool hat hat a lot of stares at stop lights today. My economics teacher said the funniest things able this necklace the other day when I wore it to school. He goes "Alex, is that some kind of talisman? It looks like if it broke evil spirts would come out and eat us!" THAT made my day.

i LOVE kylie

I had yet another snow day today and it ended up being the best one so far because I actually hung out with someone other than Cammy! Actually that's a lie I hung out with Lexii during a snow day last year. Kylie came over and we took some photographs. It was a pretty sucessful photo shoot other than the fact that we had to trudge through two feet of snow! She's wearing all of my clothes in these photos which I find awesome.

i could stab someone with this!

 (Jacket & pendant from Forever 21, Free people top)

Took another trip to Burlington yesterday and spent A LOT of time in Forever 21, I didn't spend any time in Free People...weird, but then again I didn't have much money to spend. I got both the jacket and the necklace at Forever 21. I had been looking for a jacket like this for a while and as soon as I had laid eyes on it I knew that I had to have it! Its so warm and comfortable - I love it! My friend, Rae, actually ended up buying me the pendant as a "Christmas present." I picked it up off the counter and started looking at it, when she said that she would get for me as a Christmas present. I got her one like it too, but it had glittery rhinstones and stuff on it - not really "me." I spent the rest of the day saying "I could like stab someone with this!"

death by glitter

Forgive the glitter propaganda, but yesterday I went over to Lexii's during our snowday to finally how our long-awaited beach in the snow shoot (which will be uploaded tomorrow.) We came up with this concept in a very spur of the moment way. I had kind of been wanting to use this glitter to sprinkle on someone's face and I'd all ready tried doing it to myself (that worked out swell!...NAWT!) so I decided since I always carry my glitter jar in my little photoshoot baggy, "why not have Lexii do it?" Anyway its kind of funny that this last minute descison concept turned out even better than I thought. I am so pleased with how these came out! We took a bunch and I love them all! This is actually most of it, that's why there's so much.

glass tastes better

(Blazer from Saver's, Zara t-shirt, rings from Forever 21)

So TODAY I got up, brushed my teeth, did my makeup, got dressed for school, and then I go online to check to is MAYBE school got cancelled again. As luck would have it IT WAS! I did try to shovel yesterday and I was out there for like two hours trying to dig my car out so I'm pretty glad I don't have to worry... about leaving the house until tomorrow. As for the photograph for today, a couple days ago we had a discussion in Economics class and my teacher said "I can only drink soda out of either a glass battle or a can, I can't drink it out of a plastic bottle it just kills the taste!" So today I decided to drink a can of rootbeer (out of a plastic bottle) and then I decided to poor half of the bottle into a glass bottle that I kept from a trip to Italy with my mom and I drank both. Weirdly enough, the rootbeer in the glass bottle tasted so much better than the one in the plastic! Thank you Mr. Genest, I will be carrying around a spare glass bottle around with me for life.

snow day

Snow day today! It is too glorious for words and it couldn't come at a better time! I've been up to my forehead in work that was all due yesterday so having a snow day today was the perfect way to get some downtime. I know that you all know by now that "downtime" is code for obsessive photography the crap out of anything around me. So today it was the magnificent blizzard outside my window. I actually woke up this morning, opened my window, stuck my camera outside, and took pictures from my second-floor window! Then I decided that there were plenty of things to shoot on the ground too so I went outside. Let's just saw that my black, midlength UGGs had become white, thigh-high boots within a few minutes. I was beginning to get worried about Cammy getting too wet so I came inside; my lense was beginning to fog up anyway.

Also before braving the cold snowy day to get these photographs, I did I bit of much-needed video-editing. This video features Mikaela & Birgitta on a crisp fall day just after Thanksgiving. I love how long it takes me to edit my video projects. We also took a bunch of photographs which I have posted about before.

cosmic love

(Free People top, jacket, and skirt; elephant pendant from Micheals; cameo necklace from Claire's; rings gifted and from Forever 21.)

I didn't notice how decked out I was in Free People until just now. I just kind of grabbed whatever and threw it on and headed out the door with a jar of glitter and my camera. Hmmm I should do that more often. I really liked how these photographs turned out. You probably can't really see what I'm wearing but its a jacket I got at the Free People store in Burlington, and a top I got from there over the summer layered over a skirt that I ordered from their website. I've asking around seeing if any of my models were free today so that I could shoot them with the glitter but as it turns out no one was. On top of that it was snowing so...yeah I just went with using myself.